Talk about the series here. Please no PBP in this thread. Unless otherwise noted all games are on CSN-H (for about 40% I guess). 4-15 Yordano Ventura, RHP vs. Lucas Harrell, RHP 7:10 4-16 Jeremy Guthrie, RHP vs. Dallas Keuchel, LHP 7:10 4-17 Bruce Chen, LHP vs. TBA 7:10 Should be Feldman on Thursday if he is back with the team.
Let go of reality? Become an eternal optimist? If you're seeing something in Harrell that I'm not, then fine... its not like I'm wishing ill-will on him. I just don't think he's got the makeup to be a rotational starter in MLB, and I think he's had plenty of opportunity to turn it around.
I mean I am an optimist... and I hope for the sake of the Astros that we can move past Harrell. His opportunity has run dry and then some.
We have one starter today batting over .235 As bad as the hitting was last year, somehow even that has regressed.
LWW i'm an optimist, but can't imagine us winning a game that Harrell starts and yes, i know he was pretty good two years ago, but so was a lot of people
If were gonna play Castro at DH, which I'm not opposed to, we need to go ahead and call up Stassi. Corporan is a backup C in every respect of the word. A 3rd catcher is probably more valuable right now than a 7th bullpen arm.
Agreed. These are the sort of decisions where Luhnow is still largely unproven (the shuffling in/out of actual MLB players based on performance/track record/team needs). We know he's a guru at building up the minor league system via the draft (which was his primary responsibility with the Cardinals), but he will have to prove that he can successfully manage a MLB roster on a successful team.